10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Rikishi

2. Stinkfacing Women

While WWE may have heavily featured the stinkface during Rikishi's Hall of Fame announcement video on Raw, keen viewers will have noticed that they didn't actually show Rikishi performing the move on any WWE divas. But Rikishi did plant his backside on the face of most of the women who occupied the locker room between 2000 and 2004. Chyna, Tori, Terri Runnells, Trish Strauts, Lita, Nidia, Dawn Marie, Shaniqua and even Stephanie McMahon all received a little taste of the 'Kish. WWE did this to amuse themselves, more often than not. This was around the time that hazing and ribbing was rife and the girls getting the stinkface was supposed to be just a bit of fun and also helped proved that they were team players. Trish Stratus, whose extra-long stinkface was an obvious rib (apparently she had a bit of an ego in 2000), said she was cool with taking it. Lita's stinkface was reportedly punishment for refusing to kiss Matt Hardy on TV again, shortly after their first one. Yes, during the Attitude Era it was quite common to see a 400lb, thong-wearing Samoan rub his a** in the face of bikini models but those times are long gone and WWE doesn't want to be associated with that type of thing any more. It's a PG, family-friendly product and the humiliation of females doesn't exactly gel with that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4-zLW1Pt-A